Dr. John Archer Library Open Access Resolution

The Dr. John Archer Library is committed to the principle of making scholarship and academic creative works freely and easily accessible to everyone. This paradigm is referred to as open access and it supports the mandate of oURspace, the University of Regina's institutional repository for scholarly literature, research results, official communications, and materials. oURspace defines the cultural context of the University of Regina, its faculty, researchers, staff, and students. The Library also makes open access journals easily accessible to the University of Regina community by including them in the library catalogue and our list of ejournals.

The University of Regina community is encouraged to seek out open access publishers and submit scholarly research to their publications (preferably peer-reviewed). Upon publisher acceptance and publication, a copy of the research, along with the appropriate bibliographic data, would be made available in oURspace.

Links

• Budapest Open Access Initiative: Frequently Asked Questions
• Open Access at CARL member libraries (English)
• Libre accès dans les bibliotèques membres de l'ABRC (Français)
• Open Access Week 2011 Events October 24-30, 2011
  Events listing prepared by CARL-ABRC
• DOAJ -- Directory of Open Access Journals
  A highly visible, easy-to-access, comprehensive directory of journals with Open Access
• Open Access Directory: factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship
  A wiki maintained by the OA Community with oversight from an editorial board, editors, and administrators

Articles

• Open Access Funds: A Canadian Library Survey
  An article by Leila Fernandez and Rajiv Nariani
• Open Access to Research is Coming. What is to be Done?
  An audio presentation by John Willinsky, hosted by Education Commons OISE at the University of Toronto
• What it means to be an Open Scholar and the future of scholarly publishing
  A presentation by Stian Håklev, hosted by Education Commons OISE at the University of Toronto

Publications of the Open Access Working Group is archived in the University's institutional repository oURspace:
  Open Access Working Group Collection